Roman Polanski civil suit scheduled for 2025

[silverstarry]

A woman who alleges Roman Polanski raped her in 1973 when she was 16 years old filed a civil suit under a California law that extends the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse. She originally filed her lawsuit in May 2023 but his lawyers filed to have her lawsuit tossed in November 2023. Last week, Judge H. Jay Ford III set a trial date of

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[stoppelhopser]

2025? First time I hope he doesn't bite it. I want him to stand trial, to be exposed and to go to jail for the rest of his useless existence.

[silverstarry]

Unfortunately, even if he's found guilty this is a civil trial so he won't get any jail time.

[stoppelhopser]

DAMN! He's like an eel, slipping through justice again and again.

[veritas_44]

Can’t wait for this piece of shit to die since it’s clear his victims will never get the justice they deserve

[angriest_girl]

Samantha Geimer needs to take a seat. She is entitled to feel how she feels about her own experience, but just because she wasn’t traumatised, doesn’t mean his other victims aren’t. This man is a serial CHILD predator, and by continually trying to hand wave away what he did, she’s being dismissive of all the other victims.

[silverstarry]

I have mixed feelings because she is allowed to feel however she feels, and it's understandable that her feelings may have changed over 40 years (in 1988, she sued him for intentional infliction of emotional distress and in 2003, she said, "Straight up, what he did to me was wrong" so at some point she knew none of this was acceptable). But none of that changes the fact that he has admitted repeatedly that he had sex with a 13 year old girl and then chosen to avoid returning to the United States to be sentenced

[januarysix]

her book is heartbreaking and it really does come across as being traumatized by the aftermath the most.

[skeetertuskin]

but she never mentioned his other victims and wasn't knowingly dismissing them? I believe at that time, Gaimer was Polanski's only known victim so she might have assumed that it was an isolated incident, "a mistake that he instantly regretted" as she put it.

[izzzzy23]

i'm sure the internet and hollywood will be completely normal about this

[insomniachobs]

Sickeningly predictable - excusing him because of what happened to Sharon was always bollocks, grief doesn't suddenly make you drug and rape a minor just the one time. These men never have just the one victim

[silverstarry]

I agree. I hate that she is still dealing with this, but the black and white of it is that he committed a crime, he took a plea deal, and then he left before being sentenced. He shouldn't be able to wiggle his way out of being sentenced for a crime that he FULLY ADMITTED to doing based on the fact that it's been horrible for her to deal with. Dismissing the case or letting his 42 days serve as his sentence sends the message that if you flee the country for 40 years, you can just get the slate wiped clean